Why wont it boot back into mac?

ive tried almost everything ive tried tech support and ive tried booting it from the start screen while holding down the option key and choosing mac but it keeps sending me back into windows

WHAT OS X do you have?
Tech support should have said to use Lion Recovery - Command-r or OS X OEM DVD (or retail)
I recommend installing OS X on a small 30GB volume as part of your TimeMachine drive, and then a 100GB volume partition to clone OS X with Carbon Copy Cloner
Option key is not so much "Held" down as tap at the right time or just hold MOUSE down to pause as if to ask for a CD/DVD.
Sounds like an issue for Lion more than Windows.
When you ARE in Windows then why not just use the Boot Camp Control Panel to set it to Mac OS X? that should work.

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